Sunday Toona: RIP Croz Edition
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“Everyman’s fly-fishing mentor”
The NY Times with a fitting obituary of Dave Whitlock. “He was Everyman’s fly-fishing mentor,” Kirk Deeter, the editor-in-chief of Trout magazine, said in a …
RIP Dave Whitlock
Named to Fly Fisherman magazine’s “50 Most Influential Fly Fishers in the Last 5 Decades.” Dave Whitlock, fly tier, writer, photographer, lecturer, and artist extraordinaire, …
RIP Jim Vincent
Jim Vincent, co-founder of RIO Products with his wife and partner Kitty, passed away on 9/27/2022.
We “were” the fly fishing resistance
Cleaning out some links from the “do you remember” files. MONDO refutes fly fishing’s cliche facades with bright colors, affordable gear, and no BS. As …
Sunday Toona: RIP Meatloaf
Meat Loaf, born Marvin Lee Aday in Dallas in 1947, died this week at age 74. He was reportedly “seriously ill” with COVID just …
Sunday Toona: RIP Charlie Watts Edition
The Rolling Stones performing “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” from The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus was recorded before a live …
RIP: Ron Popeil
The man behind the biggest fishing invention since the hook … and still only $19.95 has passed on to that big infomercial in the …
RIP: Orvis’ Leigh H. Perkins
Leigh H. Perkins, the man who turned The Orvis Company into an internationally renowned sporting goods brand, has passed away. He was 93. Perkins, who …
“Niekro was as baffled about fly fishing as hitters were about his knucklball”
Phil Niekro, whose signature knuckleball fooled generations of hitters and earned him a spot in Cooperstown, died last week in his sleep after a long …